The CWG is a grassroots center on public policy for workers and job seekers with disabilities to gain full access to employment. Since 2000, CWII has provided staff and logistical support allowing CWG participants to build consensus-based recommendations for improved employment and health care law. Close to 300 participants include associates from over eighty community based organizations, as well as advocates, consumers, benefits planners, youth and staff from state and federal programs.

The CWG developed policy recommendations that can now be found in California's new law AB 925, the Workforce Inclusion Act (Aroner 2002), recommendations for designing Disability Benefits 101 Information Services, and benefits planning recommendations in the new SB 1270 (Chesbro 2006).